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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Animal Farm" where do the narrator and her boyfriend drive to?

2. Who is SHE in "Nervous"?

3. When does Tammy wait to do to be alone with Keanu?

4. What changes for the narrator in "Harlem Blues" as she watches her friend, the piano player?

5. Who is the narrator in love with in "Sock It To Me"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as result of the narrator and her boyfriend's first intimate experience in "The Seduction"?

2. What does the couple do in "First Night"?

3. What does the narrator come to realize in "The Diary"?

4. What does the author of "If You Were Here Right Now" tell her addressee?

5. In "The Seduction" where does the narrator seduce her boyfriend into going and how?

6. How do Bridget and Drake solve their problems in "A Time For Change"?

7. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

8. What is the result of the narrator's night alone with Geren in "Sock It To Me"?

9. What happens as a result of Rob and Amber's misdialed phone conversation in "Wrong Number"?

10. Why does SHE leave the boy in the library in "Nervous"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thinking of "Sex Me Down Village" analyze and explain how sex can be seen as a way to escape from personal pain or suffering.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast how both narrators in "The Bachelorette Party" and "Vacation of a Lifetime" justify their infidelities against their significant others. How do their reasons support Zane's idea that uninhibited women must fulfill their intimate desires?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how the stories in"The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" parallel relationships in that they both progress gradually from mild and socially acceptable content to more extreme and less socially acceptable content. Consider the first story "First Night" in comparison to the last, "Apha Phi Fuckem- The Convention"

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